Cubs fans aren't the only ones wondering how the Wrigley Field renovation project will affect their day at the ballpark.
Players also will have to make some adjustments thanks to construction delays that affect the bleachers, the outfield batting cages...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Theo Epstein got some support from Major League Baseball in the Kris Bryant saga on Friday while MLB's investigation in tampering charges against the Cubs in the Joe Maddon hiring enters its final stage.
Commissioner Rob Manfred said...

MESA, Ariz. — Baseball's investigation into tampering charges against the Cubs in the hiring of Joe Maddon will be over before opening day, Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday.
Nearly four months after the Rays claimed the Cubs contacted Maddon while he...

MESA, Ariz. — Loud music will be a staple of preworkout stretching.
Teaching tools such as a pitching machine that hurls smaller baseballs and 36-ounce bats will be implemented later.
But still no Sammy Sosa.
Welcome to this spring's Cubs under new...

As a minor league pitcher, Jon Lester arrived too late to fully enjoy the Red Sox's first World Series title in 86 years in 2004.
But after discussions with team officials and former players, Lester wasn't about to pass up what he sees as a chance to...

SAN DIEGO — When I approached Jon Lester at the All-Star Game in Minneapolis five months ago and asked him about the possibility of coming to the Cubs as a free agent, he raised his eyebrows and shouted out for help.
"I got my first destination...

Before President Theo Epstein was checking his cell phone for text messages between answers, Ryan Dempster revealed his sales pitch to Jon Lester in his new role with the Cubs.
“Jon and I have talked about how great it is to play here,” said Dempster,...

As soon as renovations at Wrigley Field are completed and a new television deal is finalized, the Cubs could be a feared team in free agency instead of losing out on top players such as catcher Russell Martin, who signed with the Blue Jays.
"We're...

Somebody good finally took the Cubs’ money.Anibal Sanchez didn’t, and the Cubs got stuck with Edwin Jackson.
Masahiro Tanaka didn’t, and the Cubs were starting to look like chumps whose purpose was only to drive up the price for good players to get...

It sounds as if Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer addressed the Joe Maddon thing to Rick Renteria as professionally as possible.
And then fired the manager to bring in a better manager.
None of this is a surprise. It was apparent this would happen. It’s just...

Rick Renteria's exit as Cubs' manager Friday wasn't as loud or memorable as that of many of his predecessors.
His firing was announced in a wordy news release from the Cubs in which President Theo Epstein said "he deserved better and we wish him...

By the time Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer boarded a plane for Southern California the morning of Oct. 24, the team had reached the point of no return pursuing Joe Maddon.
With nothing guaranteed, Hoyer headed west that Friday to meet Rick Renteria so he...

In order to corral highly coveted manager Joe Maddon, Cubs President Theo Epstein sat in a recreation vehicle — owned by Maddon — for the first time on Oct. 27 in Navarre Beach, Fla.
"I underestimated them," Epstein said Monday at a news...

We've already established that Joe Maddon is crazy, one of the prerequisites to taking the Cubs job in the first place.
But we also found out Monday that Maddon wants his players to be just as crazy as him.
"You have to have a little bit of crazy...

New Cubs manager Joe Maddon figures to be as entertaining as Ozzie Guillen but without the profanity-laced tirades. The 60-year-old mix of old school and new school, as Cubs president Theo Epstein put it, will have to work some real magic if he's going to...

Clearing nearly $41 million from last season’s player payroll, coupled with a lucrative television contract on the horizon, points to an aggressive shopping spree for the Chicago Cubs.
And owner Tom Ricketts stated that available money will be used at...

PHOENIX -- Major League Baseball will investigate whether the Cubs tampered with new manager Joe Maddon while he was still under contract with the Rays, and Cubs president Theo Epstein says bring it on.
"We welcome the MLB investigation,"...

PHOENIX — After demolishing the Wrigley Field bleachers, upgrading from coach to first class in the manager's office and declaring themselves postseason-ready in 2015, the Cubs have already made more offseason news than the last three winters combined.
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PHOENIX— The San Francisco Giants won the World Series this year with a rotation that ranked 16th in the majors, beating a Kansas City Royals team whose rotation finished 11th overall.
So why spend over $100 million on a free-agent starter when an...